Litherland High School is a school in Litherland

Litherland

Litherland is a suburban village in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England. It was formerly an urban district, which included Seaforth and Ford...

, Merseyside

Merseyside

Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1,365,900. It encompasses the metropolitan area centred on both banks of the lower reaches of the Mersey Estuary, and comprises five metropolitan boroughs: Knowsley, St Helens, Sefton, Wirral, and the city of Liverpool...

, England

England

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, headed by Mr Jim Donnelly since 1991. The address is Sterrix Lane, Litherland, Liverpool, Merseyside, L21 0DB . The school holds specialist Language College

Language College

Language Colleges were introduced in 1995 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enables secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, modern foreign languages...

 status, teaching many languages including Spanish, Italian, French, German and Chinese. It celebrated its 60th birthday in March 2008. Litherland High School is part of the Litherland Partnership, which comprises other local primary schools including Beach Road Primary School, Lander Road Primary School and St Philips CoE Primary School, inter alia.

Litherland High School has recently been dubbed an "outstanding" school by Ofsted examinations.

New school construction

The Liverpool Echo

Liverpool Echo

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 newspaper

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 reported in October 2006 that Sefton Council had been awarded government funding to build a new school, which would merge together with Bootle High School

Bootle High School

Bootle High School was located in Netherton, Merseyside, England. It closed in September 2009.-Staff & Pupils:The school, which catered for roughly 600 pupils between the ages of 11 to 16 years old, was under the headship of Mr P. Fryer...

, mainly due to falling intake numbers particularly at Bootle High School, with proposals for a Sixth form

Sixth form

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 to be constructed on the Netherton

Netherton, Sefton

Netherton is a suburb of liverpool in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England.-Description:Situated in north Liverpool and north east of the centre of Bootle, Netherton is also north of Litherland and to the west of Aintree...

 site. Approval for the project was delayed due to an objection raised with regards to the closure of Bootle High School, although indications had been made that the DfES had approved Sefton's plan.

A meeting held at the Town Hall, Bootle

Bootle

Bootle is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England, and a 'Post town' in the L postcode area. Formally known as Bootle-cum-Linacre, the town is 4 miles  to the north of Liverpool city centre, and has a total resident population of 77,640.Historically part of...

in May 2007 indicated the project to cost approximately £22.4m, with the new higher capacity Litherland High School to take effect from 1 September 2009. All pupils at Bootle High School were be guaranteed a place at the new Litherland High School.

2009–2010

As of 1 September 2009, over 400 new students started at the school. Most were transferred over from the now closed Bootle High School and the rest were the new year 7s. Up to now the merge has been a great success in the views of both old Bootle High School children and Litherland High School children. Children from current 8 to 10 were merged together in forms and classes while current year 11s were just mixed for forms and kept separate for lessons. This decision was authorized to try not to place the pupils' education at greater risk by them having to make new friends while trying to concentrate on their GCSEs.